Horseshoer&#39;s box.



No. 7l2,289.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES J. B. FLADBY. nonsssunans BOX.

(Application filed Apr. 1, 1902.)

Patented Oct. 28. I902.

2 Sheets-Sheet l /v VEN TOR @707? Fiadky ATTOR s JOHN BENSON FLADBY, OF RUTLAND, NORTH, DAKOTA.

HORSESHOERS BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,289, dated October 28, 1902. Application filedApril1,1902. Serial No. 100,959, (No mode.)

To a, whom; it may concern.-

' a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rutland, in the cou nty of Sargent and State of North Dakota, have invented anew and Improved Horseshoers Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. This invention relates to improvements in boxes for holding horseshoers tools, nails,and shoes; and a main object is to provide in the box a tray divided into compartments for different sizes of nails and so arranged that only one compartment will be uncovered at any one time, thus preventing mixing of the nails on the floor should the box be tipped over; and another object is theprovide in connection with the box a convenient folding rack for horseshoes.

I will describe a horseshoers box embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective'view of a horseshoers box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the box, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a tray operating and holding lever employed.

The box comprises the side walls 1, the end walls 2, and the bottom 3. The side walls and bottom may be made of wood, and the end Walls may be made of any suitable material-such, for instance, as plate metal.

Arranged at about the center of the box is a transverse partition 4, at one side of which a receptacle is provided for rasps, hammers, and other tools, and at the opposite side is arranged a tray 5. This tray is made circular in form and is divided into a series of compartments (here indicated at a, b, c, and d) for containing the different 'sizes of nails, and preferably the bottoms of the compartments will be transverseiy curved, as indicated', so as to facilitate the picking up of nails when they become low in a compartment. The tray is mounted on a center post 6, having a step-bearing 7 in the bottom wall ofthe box, and the upper end of the post extends through an opening in a cover 8, which may consist of metal.

This cover 8 is provided with an opening 9, through which access may be had to any one of the compartments of the tray, and arranged on the cover at equidistant points are indicator-plates 10, 11, 12, and 13. I have here shown four compartments in the tray and a similar number of indicator devices; but it is to be understood that I am not limited to the number of compartments.

Attached to the upper end of the post 6 is an operating and holding lever 14. This holding-lever is provided with a finger-piece 15, and on its under side it is provided with a lug 16, adapted to engage in any one of a series of holes 17, formed in the cover, so as to hold the tray stationary, while a compartment is underneath the opening 9. The indicator-plates will be provided with numbers indicating the number or size of the nails in the several compartments. When the lever 14 is in the position indicated in Fig. 3, the compartment a will be disclosed through the opening. When the nails in the compartment b are desired, the lever is to be sprung upward, it being made of spring material, and rotated to engage the lug 16 in the perforation 17 opposite the indicator-plate 11. When the lever is opposite the plate 12, the nails in the compartment 0 will be underneath the opening 9, and when the lever is opposite or in line with the plate 13 the nails in the compartmentd may be secured through said opening 9. By this arrangement it will be seen that only one compartment is open at a time. Therefore should the box tip over the only nails that can fall out will be those in the particular compartment in line with the opening 9. Therefore the nails of the various sizes cannot become mixed.

The end portions 2 of the box are extended upward in the form of yokes 18, and these yokes are provided with are slots 19, which extend from a point at about the center to is mounted to swing in straps 26, attached to 3 the end of the box. At the outer ends the side portions 24 are connected bya cross-bar 27, on which the shoes are hung. To support the rack in its upright position, I provide a series of links, connected one with the other, and two of the links are provided with locking devices. The upper link 28 is made in the form of a yoke and has swinging connection with the cross-bar 27, and hinged to the lower end of the link 28 is the middle link 29, to the lower end of which is hinged the bottom link 30, which is arranged to swing on a 1 staple 31, attached to the end 2. The locking device for the links consists of a curved end of the link 30 and adapted to engage in a notch 33, formed in the middle link. In the operation of this rack it is to be swung upward and toward the end of the box and then allowed to move slightly downward, so that the finger 32 will engage in the notch 33, thus links 29 and 30 swung outward while the rack is being lowered to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, I 1

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A horseshoers box, a tray mounted to rotate therein, a spring-yielding lever connected to the tray, a lug on the under side of said lever, a cover for the tray having an opening and also perforations to receive the lug on the lever, and indicator-plates on the cover, substantially as specified.

2. A horseshoers box having upwardly-extended end pieces provided with arc-slots, a

bail mounted to swing on the end pieces, lugs extended from said bail through said slots, and a holding device for the bail connected to one of the end pieces, substantially as 3. In a horseshoers box, a rack mounted to 3 swing on one" end thereof, link connections between the outer portion of the rack and the box, and a locking device for the links, substantially as specified.

4. In a horseshoers box, a rack mounted to swing thereon and having a cross-bar at its outer end, a link having swinging connection finger 32, extended upward from the upper j with the cross-bar, a middle link hinged to the first-named link, a lower link hinged to the middle link and having swinging connection with the box, and a locking-finger on said lower link adapted to engage in a. notch in the middle link, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN BENSON FLADBY.

Witnesses:

OLE WEDIN, SEVERIN MOLTHU. 

